Description
The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.
Published: 2016-04-30
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3882 The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.
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Microsoft Windows
Mozilla Firefox
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:32:21.202Z

Reserved: 2016-03-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2809

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Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-30T17:59:06.083

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-2809

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-04-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2809 - Bugzilla

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